Foreign News: Fillip

When the Normandie safely slipped into her French Line pier in Manhattan
this week, aboard (among other anxious travelers) were Sonja Henie,
Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Lee Shubert, Thomas J. Watson and a small
gadget. Frivolous in its grim setting, it was nonetheless welcomed in
Manhattan swankshops. It was a corset.

The thing was first presented by the severe salon of Mainbocher on
Paris' Avenue George V month ago, gave women the wasp-waisted effect designers
favor, became the sensation of the Paris showings. A streamlined
adaptation of the ancient corset, cut out on the sides, it was so
stiffly boned that it...